I am co-founder of LEMOPTIX SA,
company developing embeddable laser
micro-projection systems based on
proprietary MEMS technology. Such
micro-projectors will help to eliminate
the display bottleneck in information
display systems and mobile applications.
Lemoptix is currently financially backed
by Business Angels, and received several
competition prices including Venture Leaders06, PERL08,
Venture08, VK-1&2 and FIT. Before launching Lemoptix in
2008, I formerly worked in various industry companies, including
STMicroelectronics and EADS. I was the laureate of
the 2005 European Award for Innovation and obtained my
PhD degree from the EPFL.
Looking for:
Looking for an industrial partnership in the area of mobile
devices (Mobile phone, notebook, digital camera) and information
displays.

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Frederico Angiolini

Federico Angiolini got his PhD in Electronic
Engineering in Bologna, Italy,
working on advanced chip design. In
2007 he decided to incorporate a
start-up to turn his academic research
into concrete products.
Looking for:
Searching CHF 1–2M in seed capital.

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Derek Barras

In January 08 Derek joined Institut für
Jungunternehmen (IFJ) and especially
venture kick as program coordinator.
He studied Business Administration
with major in Entrepreneurship.
Looking for:
Meet nice people, exchange experiences and have fun

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Martin Bartholet

Martin Bartholet was born in Uznach
(SG), Switzerland, on January 26, 1978.
He studied electrical engineering at
ETH Zurich, received his M.Sc. degree
in October 2004 and PhD in December
2008, respectively. In August 2008
he co-founded Celeroton (www.celeroton.
com).
Looking for:
I am looking for collaborations in the dental and surgery
drilling tool industries.

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Christian Bochet

Christian Bochet was born in 1968 in
Den Haag (Netherlands). After attending
schools in Paris and Geneva, he studied
organic chemistry at the University
of Geneva and Stanford University. In
2002, he was awarded an SNF-professorship,
and moved to the University of
Fribourg, where he became full professor
in 2006. He founded Atlas Photonics
later that year. When not doing chemistry and founding
companies, he enjoys playing violin in the Geneva Symphony
Orchestra, reading and long-distance running.
Looking for:
We look for partners for expanding our distribution network
(scientific instruments).

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Mark Blum

Mark holds a MSc in electrical engineering
from ETH Zurich. During his
studies he strengthened his international
network with stays in Gothenburg,
Paris and at MIT. After graduating
he gained two years of experience in
strategy consulting with Bain & Company.
During 8 intensive projects in 5
countries he acquired practical business
skills, complementing his technical background. Mark
founded Optotune with 3 friends in January 2008 and is
responsible for business development.
Looking for:
We are looking for: 1. Customer contacts in the field of
optics (e.g. laser makers, optics distributors, lamp designers,
microscope makers) 2. Cheap but reliable suppliers for
parts (milled, turned, injection moulded) 3. A good lawyer
that costs less than 400.-/h.

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Arnaud Bertrand

Arnaud has a background in hospitality
management and is the CEO and
founder of HouseTrip.com, a website
which aims at becoming the leading
short-term rentals marketplace.
Whether you want to find a place for
a short-term stay (holiday, business
trip, etc.) or rent out your own place,
HouseTrip is the most comprehensive
and fun website for you!
Looking for:
Partnerships that would ultimately generate relevant traffic
for the HouseTrip website – Press and media contacts –
E-Marketing people – Investors who would like to join our
second-round funding (series A).

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Nicolas Berg

Nicolas Berg, partner at Redalpine Venture
Partners, Country Manager Xing
Switzerland, serial entrepreneur, angel
investor, coach for venturelab. Nicolas
has invested in 16 private companies
(ICT, Live Sciences) since 2000, and
he has co-founded 8 companies since
1984. In 1998, he founded Borsalino.ch,
a leading Swiss financial portal for private
investors that was acquired by Ringier Media in 2000.
For several years Nicolas has worked as a technology and
finance journalist. He graduated as M.Sc. (BA) at the University
of Bern in 1985. Born 1959, he grew up in Gstaad,
Bern and Basel, and is living in Solothurn.
Looking for:
Redalpine is looking for highly scalable European startups
that are looking for an investment of CHF 200k-2m plus a
VC's knowledge and network. In addition we want to maintain
the existing network with business friends.

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Philipp Antoni

Becoming an entrepreneur that can implement
ones belief into a project was
a motivation throughout my education.
Already during school I run a business
project with a friend that helped
friends and family to place their bets
on the stock market right. Following
this motivation, I studied chemistry and
economics as tools to understand new
technological and scientific approaches, and to combine it
to an economic value. I was always fascinated to start a biotech
company with a great scientific team that is challenging
new summits. My team and I now want to contribute to
find ways for more precise and personalized medicine by
providing validated biomarkers for the pharma industry.
Looking for:
At the moment we are looking for seed money to survive
the first 2 years and built up a stronger case in order to
attract VCs. Secondly, we are looking for collaborations/
customers and pilot projects from pharma or related industries
that want to measure and quantify their protein
levels in different media.

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Philip Bodmer

After a 19 year career in industry
where I held various management positions,
I founded Bodmer & Partner
Consultants AG, focusing in strategy
consulting and business development
for small Swiss manufacturing companies.
I am a board member of several
Swiss SMEs. In addition, I serve on the
Board of Trustees of the Schweizerische
Volkswirtschafts Stiftung and am member of CTI Invest
and StartAngels Network. During the past years I have
worked closely with more than a dozen start-ups in various
capacities to assist them in developing their venture. I hold
a MS in Chemical Engineering from the ETH and an MBA
from the Univ. of Virginia.
Looking for:
Seeking interesting ventures where I can contribute with
my expertise and resources.

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Pierre Bordry

Having spent 15 years both as Fund
Manager and active COO in expanding
SMEs, Pierre is passionate by entrepreneurship
and developed a close sense
of shared interest with entrepreneurs.
Creative, he designed financial tools in
order to optimize internal and external
growth in «traditional» industries and
introduced the first mezzanine tools on
the French and Swiss markets. Being aware of the increasing
sophistication required by fund management industry,
he passed the Quantitative Fund Management degree at
Université de Genève in 2003.
Looking for:
Extend my network.

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Jasper Bouwsma

Jasper Bouwsma is committed to supporting
entrepreneurs, start-ups and
established companies in bringing
their innovation to market successfully.
His activities are organized around
two companies: a)With Vujàdé Ltd., of
which he is Founder and CEO, he incubates
ideas, supports entrepreneurs
and start-ups from an early stage with
a complete set of insights b)On the other hand, he acts as
European Affiliate and Sr. Consultant for Enterprise Development
Group and liaisons with with EDG's head office in
Palo Alto (California, USA).
Looking for:
Swiss innovativeness and nodes in the ecosystem.

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Diego Braguglia

Diego Braguglia is Partner with VI Partners
AG. His areas of expertise are life
sciences and biotechnology. He has
more than 15 years of industry experience
in life sciences, medical technology
and pharmaceuticals in the US and
Europe.
Looking for:
Everybody who has great ideas.

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Raphaël Briner

Raphaël is founder of HyperWeek, a
SaaS private label socialnetworking
solution based in Geneva, awarded by
the Swiss Television and the Swiss State.
Raphaël is Venture Leaders 2009 and is
building his new team. He co-founded
Electronlibre, a web design agency with
more than 23 great people, in Lausanne.
As Associate Director, he achieved to
grow clients portfolio attracting 3 of top10 watchmakers,
2 of the top3 national carriers and great brands such as
Nespresso and Pictet.
Looking for:
Looking for broadcasters, organizations that want to deploy
their own socialmedia website / looking for seed of
500k for product beta release2 and going global.

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André Brühlmann

I am a business economist and director
of COMITAS AG. I have been with the
firm for 8 years now. My passion is my
family with two children, I love to swim
and to play tennis.
Looking for:
Good networking, fun, meet nice and interesting people.

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Peter Burckhardt

Dr. Burckhardt is CEO of EVA – the
Basel life sciences start-up agency. EVA
is an institution which supports potential
entrepreneurs from the very first
moment with coaching, bringing in the
network, and with seed-money. Dr.
Burckhardt has a longtime experience
in the pharmaceutical industry and in
consulting.
Looking for:
I am looking for potential entrepreneurs to whom I can
give support on the journey to the foundation of a start-up
company.

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Pierre Bureau

Founder Arimaz SA, expert in mobile
robotic technologies and markets. Solid
engineering background with current
activities focused on business development
and marketing strategy. Strong
links with European robotic research
network and EU research framework
program. Recent participation to the
VentureLab Swiss entrepreneurship
program and part of the VentureLeaders 2007 Team. Previously
employed as CTO for K-Team SA. Founder of Arimaz
SA, developing technologies for interactive toys and entertainment
robots.
Looking for:
We are currently looking for partners to create other
interactive devices, connected with existing content and
communities. We are more specifically targeting social networks,
casual online games and/or virtual worlds.

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Pierre-Yves Caboussat

As a «start-uper» I built up two companies.
Now I’m responsible for New
Business Development at Swiss Post
(Group level).
Looking for:
Business Models that could directly affect the business of
Swiss Post – Business Models that could help Swiss Post
to develop its business in Switzerland and abroad – .... and
finally smart thinkers who help to share ideas about future
communication and so identify new business opportunities.

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Stéphane Croisier

HEC and computer Science degrees
I started my carreer in Audit/Business
Consulting at Arthur Andersen Geneva
I created in 98 a first VC funded B2B
company (Xo3) active in the Portal +
a marketplace of reusable IT components
which went bankrupt in 2001
during the crash of the new economy.
I recreated in 2002 a second company (Jahia) which I am
still managing today (30 employees - ~5 mio CHF revenues
– subsidaires in France; Austria and USA) which is active
in the «Open Source Enterprise Content Management»
market niche.
Looking for:
High-Tech startups mainly active in the Internet/Content
Management area and looking for coaching, advises or additional
advisory/board members. VCs looking for a potential
financial round [1–3 mio Euro] in a profitable 5 mio CHF
revenues IT start-up with 30 employees worldwide.

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Franco Dal Molin

Founder and CTO of Collanos Software
AG, a company delivering peer-to-peer
software that allows teams to instantly
setup secured, organized workspaces.
Track record: Established offshore product
development in Ukraine, built initial
team in Switzerland, secured first seed
funding, brought product to productionlevel
beta, generated initial revenue,
signed up early adopters, re-launched the company in the
San Francisco Bay Area and brought an experienced CEO as
well as new investors on board. Franco is often described by
his peers as a visionary innovator and focused executor. His
biggest strength lies in his ability to translate technological
trends into business opportunities, resulting in well thought
out and effective solutions. Franco is multi-lingual and multicultural,
with professional experience working with diverse
nationalities. Franco grew up in Zurich, Switzerland. He received
his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of
Applied Sciences in Aarau and an Executive MBA from the
University of St. Gallen.
Looking for:
Co-entrepreneurs in the Software, Internet and Web space,
with experiences in «freemium» go-to-market models, monetization
strategies, and viral growth. Also interested in community
involvement and «crowd sourcing» innovation.

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Giovanna Davatz

Born in Graubuenden, Giovanna Davatz
studied physics at ETH Zurich
and in Toulouse, France. After her
studies she decided to earn her PhD
at the European Center for Nuclear
Research (CERN) in Geneva, exploring
the discovery potential of the new accelerator
(LHC). With the knowledge
obtained during her PhD, she founded
Arktis Radiation Detectors Ltd together with two partners.
The company, whose focus ist the development of
radiation detection technology for security applications,
has been awarded several distinguished prizes, including
McKinsey&Co’s «best business plan».
Looking for:
Meeting interesting people, networking.

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Benoît Dubuis

I have 15 years of international experience
in the life sciences, both in industry
and in academic science management. I
occupied different management positions
in pharmaceutical companies, including
Ciba-Geigy/Novartis and Lonza.
In 2000 I joined the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne) to
establish the School of Life Sciences
and served as its first Dean. In 2004 I co-founded Eclosion,
the first Swiss life sciences seed-fund and incubator, I also
founded Excellgene SA and I am the President of the BioAlps
association.
Looking for:
I am looking for different innovative projects, real entrepreneurs
and financing all being key success factors for Eclosion.

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Bettina Ernst

Bettina Ernst is co-founder and CEO
of the company PRECLIN Biosystems
AG. She has a total of 10 years of experience
working in basic immunology
and spent many years working in the
U.S. Recently, Bettina shifted her focus
to laboratory management and refined
her business expertise by undertaking
an MBA. In addition, Bettina was one
of Switzerland¹s leading gymnasts, participating in the 1984
Olympic games. She also won the Amateur division of the
Hawaiian Ironman in 1996 and again in 1998.
Looking for:
I am looking forward – to meet new and old friends – to
have a thousand of laughter – to use my crampons and ice
ax to climb summits – to have unforgettable moments –
and to get to know you all.

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Patrizia Fischer

I'm a co-founder and the CEO of Pearltec
AG, an ETH spinoff in the medtech
sector. Previously, I had received a MSc
in Biomedical Engineering and a BSc in
Mechanical Engineering, both from ETH.
I was among the Venture Leader 08 and
have also gone through other Venturelab
workshops/courses.
Looking for:
Contact & discussions with: a)radiologists, MTRA's, healthcare
insurance professionals, hospital administration b)people
with experience in sales/marketing of medtech devices
abroad, medical device distributors c)people with experience
in medtech device supply chain management.

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Didier Coquoz

Dr. Coquoz is by education a clinical
pharmacologist and pharmacist with 18
years of international experience in the
pharmaceutical industry. He is president
and CEO since 1995 of DRDC
Pharma S.A., a registered Swiss drug,
business and companies development
consultancy firm. Until recently, Dr. Coquoz
was CEO of Xigen S.A., a biotech
spin-off from the University Hospital of Lausanne that he
structured from scratch. He capitalized Xigen in one year
with 17 mios € (largest Series A round) and transformed
in 24 months an academic spin-off with a lead compound
into a promising Biotech of 17 FTEs. Prior to that, Dr. Coquoz
gained experience on both sides of the Atlantic mainly
as Vice-President and founding employee of H3 Pharma in
Montreal, Canada, from 2000 to 2004; as Vice-President and
founding employee of Triskel integrated Services in Geneva
from 1995 to 2000.
Looking for:
Looking for partnerships/financing/mangement opportunities
in the area of therapeutic drugs.

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Gilles Florey

I hold a Bachelor in Business and Administration
(HES-SO, 2008) and over the
last years I have worked at a Swiss Bank,
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, where I
provided financial solutions to small
and new companies. Over the course of
those three years, I greatly improved my
knowledge of financing in Startups. Additionally,
I have worked at Renotec, a
construction company, as a Business Development. My duties
were to suggest and implement new business process solution
and to sing new business contracts. Since January 2008,
I participated in the creation and in the development of Key-
Lemon’s products, and I’m in charge of all the commercial
aspect. My functions are not limited to the commercial part,
but also to the development of the strategy of the company,
to the communication, to the search of financing and to the
daily management of the company.
Looking for:
KeyLemon is looking for distribution partner in Software
(biometric solution) as well a first round of financing.

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Michael Friedrich

Aïmago reduces cost of care and improves
patient’s health by developing
and commercializing the first viable
diagnostic imaging instruments to visualize
and to monitor microcirculation.
The company is driven by an experienced
team has already successfully created
and exited a start-up ten years ago.
Personally, being a 2007 EPFL graduate
in microtechnology and in life sciences, I consider myself as
generalist with significant project leadership experience.
Looking for:
Seed financing (600kCHF).

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Dania Gerhardt

Dania is one of the three founders and
the COO & CFO of Amazee. After
graduating with a Master in economics
from the University of Basel in 2002 she
worked as an audit and accounting professional
for KPMG. In 2005 she graduated
as Swiss Certified Accountant (eidg.
dipl. Wirtschaftsprüfer) and continued
working with KPMG until she decided
to join the founding team of Amazee in 2007. Dania is a fast
and communicative executer and always on the hunt for new
business opportunities to make Amazee a global success!
Looking for:
Amazee is looking for media partnerships to promote the
projects running on Amazee. Furthermore we are looking
for corporate clients and large organizations interested
in a co-branded or white-label customized version of the
Amazee platform.

I study geophysics and completed my
cursus with an EPFL masters in computer
sciences. I’ve worked several years in
the design of GIS applications and in the
project management before to create
LogiFLeet that counts now 10 employees.
Now, 100 companies with mobile
work force are using daily our GPS
FleetManagement and Mobile Computing
solution to improve their profitability.
Looking for:
Raising CHF 300'000 to become the Swiss market leader in
fleet management and mobile informatics solutions.

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Dominik Grolimund

Dominik Grolimund, co-founder and
CEO of Wuala (www.wuala.com), Swiss,
is 28 years old and studied computer
science at ETH Zurich. In 1998, he
founded his first company, Caleido, and
developed a CRM software of which
more than 35'000 licenses have been
sold. In 2004, he started research and
development on Wuala, a novel cloud
storage at ETH Zurich, which has been publicly launched in
summer 2008. In spring 2009, he successfully sold Wuala to
LaCie, the leading manufacturer of external storage solution
and network attached storage.
Looking for:
Looking for exceptional startups with a phenomenal product
or idea to help or invest.

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Maël Guillemot

I have a computer science background,
studied in a couple of european universities
in France, UK and Spain. My main
area of expertise is the multimedia information
management. Since November
2007, I am the CEO and co-founder
of Klewel (www.klewel.com).
Looking for:
I am looking for partnership in the area of event / congress /
elearning conference industry, searching for business angels
in order to expand our service-based local business into a
product-based global business.

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Rudolf Gygax

Ruedi Gygax, Ph.D, recently retired from
the Novartis Venture Fund where he has
been managing director since its inception
in 1997. He served on the boards
of nine companies. He studied physical
chemistry at the University of Basel
and Stanford University prior to joining
Ciba-Geigy (Novartis) in 1978. He
is venture partner at Nextech Venture
Ltd. and board member of several companies active in the
field of biotechnology.
Looking for:
Business initiatives to which I could contribute my experience,
which includes start-ups, financing rounds, mergers,
turn-around situations and the like – (rather unlikely:)
Seeking investment opportunities in advanced stage cancer
companies – Board positions in start-up ventures – Consultancy
activities.

Reto Hartinger is a pioneer in the
New Media. He was one of the first
who sold CD-ROM's in Switzerland
to the whole world. Together with
two partners, he founded search.ch
and made it big, before they sold it to
the Swiss Post. He was responsible for
Marketing and Partnering at search.
ch. Today, he is president of the «Erfa-
Gruppe Internet Briefing», the biggest Group for this toppic
in Switzerland and has a huge network.
Looking for:
Financing of 5 mio $ and marketing partners in the whole
for CoCounting.com a simple online accounting software.
CoCounting is radically global, collaborative and community
driven. CoCounting is a revolutionary concept with all the
best that internet and web 2.0 can do for small business.

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Wolfgang Henggeler

I graduated in Physics from ETHZ and
did my PhD in Material Sciences at the
Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble. My
business career started at Pilatus Aircraft,
where I developed and introduced
new aircraft production processes. I
then worked for Unaxis Balzers (now
Oerlikon Optics), first in production engineering,
and later as head of the Profit
Center «Laser» with full profit-loss responsibility for a 10
MCHF/y operation. In 2003, I joined Unitectra, the technology
transfer office of the Universities of Bern and Zurich
where I am head of «Physical Sciences» and in charge of
commercializing inventions and negotiating research collaborations
in the field of physics, chemistry, medical technology,
informatics and earth sciences.
Looking for:
Entrepreneurs who are ready to share their experiences
with founders of new spin-offs/ Early-stage investors, especially
in Med-Tech.

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Peter Hogenkamp

German, living in Switzerland since 1990.
Graduated in Information Management
from University of St. Gallen in 1996.
Co-founded Zurich-based Zeix AG,
leading Swiss Usability Agency, in 2000.
Founded commercial blog publisher
Blogwerk AG in 2006.
Looking for:
Fresh new ideas in online and social media marketing.

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Mario Jenni

Mr. Jenni studied molecular genetics at
the University of Zurich and obtained
his MSc at the Institute of Zoology of
the same university in 1991. He continued
as a research assistant and in 1992
he started working as District Manager
for Life Technologies AG, Basel (Invitrogen).
In 1994 he became Product Manager
at Hoechst-Pharma AG, Zurich
(Sanofi-Aventis). In 1998 Mr. Jenni co-founded and co-led
the biotech spin-off The Genetics Company with three topclass
scientists. In 2002 he became a successful independent
consultant for the life science community, and additionally
in 2007 Managing Director of a newly founded business incubator,
located at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material
Science and Technology (Empa) in Zurich-Dubendorf.
Looking for:
I’m looking for start-ups that fit to our Empa business incubator
glaTec or to the Biotech Center Zurich, and VC’s,
Business Angels, and start-up facilitators (I don’t know yet)
who complement my business network.

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William Lüthi

Apprenticeship and assistant/advisor in
wealth management with UBS, followed
by a Bachelor in marketing and international
management at the University of
Applied Sciences, St. Gallen. In the last
four years with venturelab I have been
responsible for screening and selecting
cases, heading strategy workshops and
managing many internal and external
projects. Currently I am finishing my master's degree in innovation
management at the University of St. Gallen.
Looking for:
Innovative startups, interesting people.

Hicham Majd received his Master in Microengineering
and his PhD in Biotechnology
and Bioengineering from EPFL.
Currently, he works as Post-Doc and
project manager in University of Geneva
and EPFL to develop innovative surface
coating for biomedical implants; this project
is supported by CTI-discovery funds.
In parallel, Hicham co-founded CapSol,
start-up developing a strategy combining biology, engineering
and nano-/microtechnology expertise to face a clinically
relevant problem, such as encapsulation of implanted medical
devices.
Looking for:
Looking for a partnership in implantable medical devices and
networking with other entrepreneurs.

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Francois Marcos

François Marcos worked for nearly 10
years in start-ups (Singularis) as well
as multinational companies (Hewlett-
Packard, Temenos, SOFGEN), where he
held various technical, consulting, operational
and management positions. He
joined DEFI Gestion SA in August 2007
as Principal.
Looking for:
Innovative start-ups, either early-stage or expanding, with a
substantial potential market, a tried-and-tested team and a
well-defined project.

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Simon May

After working in the industrial sector,
Simon studied at UAS St. Gallen. Currently
he is doing his Exec. MBA. Simon
is a member of the IFJ management and
responsible for key accounts, partnerships,
marketing, HR and the popular
startup networking platform, the «venture
aperos» (110 events, 8,000 participants
annually). He educates each year
over 300 entrepreneurs and employees and speaks at numerous
events in Switzerland and abroad.
Looking for:
Committed partners who want to foster the Swiss venture
ecosystem.

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Andre Mercanzini

Studied Engineering Physics at the University
of Toronto and did his PhD in
Biomedical Engineering at EPFL under
Prof. Philippe Renaud. Interned at different
places during school including
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, one
year at Zyvex Corp (Dallas, TX), the
first company to commercialize molecular
nanotechnology, Bosch Research in Palo Alto, CA and
the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility. Founded Aleva Neurotherapeutics
in 2008 to commercialize neurostimulation
technology for the treatment of neurological disorders.
Looking for:
Searching for creative partnerships to make our medical device
products the standard-of-care.

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Peter Metzinger

Peter Metzinger is Owner of 4C business
campaigning GmbH und holds a
degree in Physics. Since 1998, he is involved
in consulting activities for companies
and NGO’s. He teaches in several
professional and executive schools.
Looking for:
Interesting conversations; Investors who are aware of the importance
of Corporate Identity Management and Communication
and who might be potential partners; interesting Start-ups
to invest in.

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Laurent Mieville

After graduating in Physics from the EPFL,
Laurent completed a Ph.D. at the University
of Geneva where he studied the growth
and the properties of superconducting
thin films and multilayers. He spent the
next three years in the US, first at Stanford
University as group leader, and then at a
startup company, Conductus, where he was
involved in the realization of electronic superconducting
devices for medical imagery
and telecommunications. Parallel to these activities, he was a scientific
consultant in the evaluation of the commercial potential of
new technologies for Glenwood partners, a capital venture firm.
In October 1998, he founded Unitec, the Technology Transfer Office
of the University of Geneva, and heads the office. He is immediate
past president of the European Association of Science
and Technology Transfer Professionnals (ASTP) and co-founder of
the Swiss Technology Transfer association (SWITT). He presently
is in Boston during his one year sabbatical to write a book on
University-Firms interactions to be published in 2010.
Looking for:
I’m looking for entrepreneurs to improve collaboration with tech
transfer and listen to their needs in order to further improve
the speed and efficiency of the transactions between start-ups
and Universities. I’m looking to indentify the best companies to
convince to come to Geneva and to make connections between
them and the local Angel/VC/incubator community.

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Jordi Montserrat

Jordi is active since 12 years in the
high-tech entrepreneurship field. In
several position ranging from start-up
executive to managing national initiatives
such as Create Switzerland, venturelab,
and venture kick in Western
Switzerland and at the national level,
Jordi has acquired a unique network
and understanding of the high-tech entrepreneurship
scene in Switzerland.
Looking for:
Innovative ways to maintain Switzerland's lead in entrepreneurship
and innovation.

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Wolfgang Moritz

Wolfgang Moritz is a Biochemist by
training and received his Ph.D. from the
University of Zurich. During a postdoc
fellowship at Harvard Medical School
in Boston his research was focusing on
metabolic disorders with a special interest
in Diabetes. He held an academic
position as a project leader in organ
transplantation research at the University
Hospital in Zurich. He recently co-founded InSphero AG,
a company dedicated to foster 3-dimensional cell culture
technology for the area of drug screening and cell therapy.
Looking for:
We are looking for seed financing, but also advise in contract
negotiations, legal affairs and how to close deals, basically the
dos and don'ts from experienced entrepreneurs.

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Jochen Mundinger

Jochen Mundinger is CEO and Chairman
of routeRANK Ltd, which he
started in 2006. He holds first class MA,
MPhil and PhD degrees in mathematics
and computer science from Cambridge
University, UK, and previously worked
as a senior researcher at EPFL.
Looking for:
• Further customers for adapted routeRANK versions (such
as the WWF Travel Helper)
• Further awareness for the routeRANK website
(www.routerank.com)
• Business and software developers
(www.routerank.com/jobs)
• Any contacts to help achieve either of these

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Claus Niedermann

Claus Niedermann is a Journalist for
over 30 years. He is the founder of the
Journalistenbüro Niedermann GmbH
in Lucerne (1986). For many years he
was in charge of the page «Innovation»
in the Swiss business magazine CASH
where he got awarded in 1996 with
the «Idee-Suisse Creativity Award». His
team is responsible for all specials of the
CASH group concerning Innovation and KMU. Since the beginning
10 years ago he puts a personal emphasize as expert
and member of the jury into the Swiss Economic Award and
many other Swiss Awards.
Looking for:
I am looking for partnerships in the area of science / technology
and economy to start a new magazine based on Innovation.

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Bruno Oesch

Dr. Bruno Oesch graduated from the
ETH Zurich with a Master's degree in
Natural Sciences. In 1997, he founded
Prionics with Dr. M. Moser and Dr. C.
Korth at the University of Zurich. After
having held the position of a Co-CEO
of Prionics and Head of Research and
Development for ten years, Dr. Oesch
now serves as Chairman of the Board of
Prionics and Neurotune, a spin-off from Prionics. In 2009, Dr.
Oesch has also taken up the CEO position in neurotune.
Looking for:
Seed capital for company developing campylobacter vaccine;
a lot more capital for development of drugs for chronic pain
and age-related muscle wasting; partnerships for further development
of pharmaceuticals; connections to pharma and
diagnostic industry; friends for a good adrenalin kick e.g.
mountain biking or freeriding (snowboard).

Renato Pellegrini, is one of two founders
of the company sonic emotion ag
and holds a diploma from the ETH
and also from the Ruhr-Universtiy of
Bochum. His company sonic emotion
develops and sells technology to reproduce
holographic sound (3D sound).
This new technology is called holophony
and is used in the industry (car and
flight simulators), museums, cinemas, etc.
Looking for:
I'm looking for the ultimate sales guy that can boost our
Asian Sales in China and Japan.

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Diego Probst

A «venturelab»-team member since
september 2007. Responsible for the
entrepreneurship courses «venture
challenge» at universities Basel, Bern
and Winterthur ant the organisation of
the events «venture ideas», which take
place several times a year.
Looking for:
Interesting contacts, experiences and fun!

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Jim Pulcrano

I'm an engineer by training, with an MBA
from IMD. Early career was in the petroleum
industry, but since then I've
been involved with startups and IMD, in
parallel. I was born in the US, but have
lived in CH for the past 24 years. I'm
married with 3 children, and I live near
Lausanne.
Looking for:
Entrepreneurs who are good candidates for the IMD Startup
Competition. Entrepreneurs who might be good for our research
on entrepreneurship and networking.

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Jost Renggli

COO and Partner of Venture Valuation
AG. Master in business economics from
the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Comprehensive experience in valuing
companies based on many valuation
projects in diverse industries. Conception
and development of the Biotechgate
Company Database www.biotechgate.
com. Project management for the
development of several internet portals. Previously lecturer
at several business and management schools.
Looking for:
I am looking for interesting people, fun and potential customers
for our business ;-).

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Matthias Sala

Matthias was born and raised near Basel
in Switzerland. Two decades later, he
moved to Zurich to study ubiquitous
computing, distributed networks and
pervasive games. He also needled his
computer science students as a teaching
assistant to graduate with an MSc in
Computer Science from the ETH Zurich
in spring 2006. During his studies,
he invented an RFID-enhanced recycle system, worked on
smart vacuum cleaners and gave life to gossiping domestic
refrigerators at Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) in Munich.
After graduation, he then reflected on activity-based
information targeting on the mobile phone at the Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC) in the Valley. Today at Gbanga, he
blurs the boundaries between the virtual and real world?
also his very own. Besides this, he loves to throw parties
such as SuperHappyDevFlat and StartupCamp Switzerland.
Looking for:
a) looking for partnerships in the media/content/ads space
b) searching money for a second seeding round.

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Gerd Scheller

Gerd Scheller got his M.E. and PhD from
the Technical University Munich, Germany.
He also holds an M.B.A. degree from
City University, WA, USA. He spent
more than 11 years with Philips / NXP
Semiconductors, where he held senior
positions in General Management, R&D
Management, Program and Project Management
in its communications as well
as consumer businesses, located in Switzerland, The Netherlands
and China. Before joining Philips, he worked for
Corporate Research and Development, Siemens AG located
in Germany, and the Siemens/IBM/Toshiba joint venture, located
in the US. Gerd has experience in incorporating companies
in several countries. He is a member of SwiTT (Swiss
Technology Transfer Association), FreeRadicals, and n2d2r, a
NPO supporting people susceptible to drug addiction.
Looking for:
I am looking for: a) partnerships for the support and realization
of ideas in the area of ICT, multimedia, and broadcasting
b)Financing, mainly, but not limited to seed phase of hightech
start-ups.

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Vincent Schickel

Vincent Schickel is the founder and
CEO of Prediggo SA, a spin-off from
EPFL. Prediggo develops and sell the
most advance recommender systems
software to eShops and News Portal.
This patented software helps customers
find the item they look for in real
time, by analyzing their interest and
preferences. But most importantly, our
customers have seen increase in sales just a few hours after
switching the system on.
Looking for:
I’m looking for two things: a)Someone with some contact
in the eCommerce industry in order to open leads with
potential customer b)A BA who would be willing to invest
100–200K in our project.

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Beat Schillig

Beat started his entrepeneurial career
10 years ago. He grew his company IFJ
from a 10% parttime job to a 25 people
operation, managing national programs
like venturelab and venture kick.
As a business angel he was helping to
grow a good dozen of startups. Beat
is still fascinated every day by exciting
business ideas of the brilliant startup
entrepreneurs in Switzerland.
Looking for:
Ambitious startup entrepreneurs who are after the next big
thing.

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Paul Sevinç

Paul E. Sevinç received an MSc in electrical
engineering and an ScD in computer
science, both from ETH Zürich.
After having received his MSc and before
pursuing his ScD, he spent a couple
of years working as a software engineer
in Switzerland and in the US. With
Doodle inventor Michael Näf, Paul
founded Inturico Engineering GmbH,
now Doodle AG, who's CTO he is. Doodle AG provides a
Web service at doodle.com that aids in saving groups precious
time when finding a time for a group event such as a
conference call or a family BBQ.
Looking for:
I'm looking for know-how and experience in different business
models for Web-based services.

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Samuel Sonderegger

I obtained my Master degree in Physics
from EPF Lausanne after studies in Lausanne,
Lyon and St. Petersburg. During
my PhD at EPFL (up to 2007) I codeveloped
the ultrafast Scanning electron
microscopy technique now being commercialized
by Attolight. Currently I'm
CEO of Attolight, company I founded
with Jean Berney in march 2008.
Looking for:
I'm looking for an experienced specialist in the optoelectronic
industry with a particularly detailed knowledge on
LED/LD quality testing. I'm also searching BAs to finance a
500kCHF seedround.

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Piero Stinelli

Internet enterpreneur for 20 years.
Studied at the HSG in St.Gallen. CEO
of VADIAN.NET AG and other online
and mobile companies. Still fascinated
by the internet's impact on society and
positive about the own babies potential:
news.ch, wetter.ch, hotel.ch, werbung.
ch, stellenmarkt.ch, aspsms.com, ...
Looking for:
Looking for nice people and potential partners and business
cases to aggregate in our media network.

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Peter Stöckling

Probably the senior member of the
summit, I am not a founder but a
journalist and since 1996 (magazine
BOOM) involved in the scene, actually
as responsible für media and communication
für venturelab, venture kick
and IFJ.
Looking for:
Exciting startup stories and news for our powerfull communication
channels.

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Dominik Tarolli

Dominik (COO & Founder Procedural
Inc.) trained and consulted over 300
high-tech startups mainly in Europe and
the US since 1996. He also held some
minor stake in different startups, is the
founder of SwissStartups.com and the
Blog-Camp Switzerland. Dominik has
over seven years of experience in online
and offline marketing, working for
global clients. He was responsible for market different internet
communities in Switzerland and the German part of
the Swiss initiative «venturelab».
Looking for:
Senior Execs and mentors within the 3D software industry.

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Marc Thurner

After having worked in a Swiss leading
research company (CSEM), I had the
opportunity to work in the area of the
assembly technology (Mikron Assembly
technologies) and lately for the medical
industries (Cochlear acoustics). I
founded the company Delta Robotics
GmbH in 2007 that acts in the tissue
engineering field. Our core development
is the develoment of a bioinductive bone graft.
Looking for:
I'm looking for the top candidate that could become our
marketing and sales manager – I'm looking for strategic partners
for the global distribution of our Bio Factory.

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Remo Uherek

I am 25 years old and I am Co-Founder
& CEO of Trigami AG, an Advertising-
Network specializing in Social Media
Marketing, in particular Blogs. I studied
business & economics at Uni Basel and
Trigami is my second Internet company.
I recharge my batteries practicing Martial
Arts (Boxing, Karate) and enjoying
DVDs.
Looking for:
I'm looking for companies that are interested to increase
their Google-Rankings in a new and substantially more efficient
way.

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Vögeli Mario

Mario is Co-Founder and COO of Arktis
Radiation Detectors Ltd. After receiving
a Master’s from the University
of Zurich in business administration
with an emphasis on technology and
innovation management, he began his
professional career as a management
consultant. For the past 6 years he has
been working as a project-, processand
quality manager in the defence, security and medical
device industry. He is therefore familiar with many aspects
of managing a business and has firsthand experience of
what it takes to successfully develop and market innovative
technology.
Looking for:
I'm looking for potential Investors for a series A financing
round (5mio SFr.).

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Pascal von Rickenbach

Pascal von Rickenbach is a co-founders
of StreamForge. After studying Architecture
for a year at ETH he changed
to the department of Computer Science
and received his master’s degree
in 2004. He then joined the Distributed
Computing Group at ETH as a PhD
student. He successfully finished his
PhD in 2008 and then joined forces
with Remo Meier, the inventor of the StreamForge technology,
and Nicolas Burri and founded StreamForge GmbH
in March 2009. Based on a newly developed peer-to-peer
based streaming technology, StreamForge offers radio stations
a fully-hosted streaming service for their internet
programs which is able to serve millions of parallel listeners
with high-fidelity, rock-solid streams at low cost.
Looking for:
I'm looking for connections into the media business as well
as partnerships with internet service providers/content
delivery networks/system integrators. Furthermore, we're
planning a first financing round of CHF 600k in spring 2010.

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Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier

Since 2003 CTI Start-up Coach (Financing
and Pitching). Since 2004 Lecturer
at venturelab (Financing). Since 2003
Managing Director of CTI Invest.
Looking for:
Good cases to present to CTI Invest investors and to present
at the de Vigier Foundation.

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Nina Vutk

Nina Vutk is a dramaturge, public relation
specialist and journalist. Actually
she is writing a book («Erfolgsrezepte
– Wie man Erfolgszutaten richtig mischt
») for Brandstätter Verlag. She was
working for Austrian media, the party
SPÖ, theaters, PR agencies, university
lecturers and startups. Nina studied
theater, film and media in Vienna
(Mag.phil.). She was born 3.2.1978.
Looking for:
New challenge in a media startup (or theatre).

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Rémi Walbaum

Rémi Walbaum is an entrepreneur at
heart. The various enterprises he has
created have often been the result of
his pioneering vision. Like most true
entrepreneurs, Rémi Walbaum has
known both extraordinary success
and dramatic failure – often because
his companies were started too early,
before the market was quite ready for
them. In 2005, Rémi Walbaum launched his latest venture:
Fleur de Pains, a chain of bakeries specializing in small-scale,
traditional methods of baking. Fleur de Pains has been highly
successful and is expanding rapidly.
Looking for:
New challenge in a media startup (or theatre).

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Alexandre Wayenberg

Born in Belgium, Alexander has always
targeted to be an entrepreneur. While
earning a Master degree at EPFL in micro/
nanosystems and biomedical engineering,
he co-founded AgoraBee S.A. (
an original equipment manufacturer in
the field of active RFID ) in march 2008.
Alexander has now left AgoraBee to the
benefit of his new company project.
Looking for:
I'm looking for a partnership in the field of cold supply chain
management and temperature regulated transportation. I'm
looking also for angel investors.

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Juergen Weder

Jürgen holds a masters degree in finance
& accounting from University of
St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland. He has
been working in the IT and Air Transportation
Industry for more than 20
years. Before starting his own business
in 2003, Jürgen had managing positions
at Swissair and PeopleSoft. His company’s
flagship software product ZEUS
resolves a problem of operational data gathering and analysis
which has existed for many years. It is already in use at
a number of international airports.
Looking for:
Looking for (a) experts challenging our business plan to enter
new markets and discuss our partner strategy and (b)
interested investors for our next financing round.

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Pierre-Jean Wipff

Pierre-Jean Wipff is presently CTO
and co-founder of Excellness Biotech.
After having completed his Master’s
degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology
and in Bioengineering at the Ecole
Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg
(Strasbourg, France) Mr. Wipff
worked for the pharmaceutical company
Octapharma S.A.S (Linglosheim,
France) in project management. Then, he prepared a PhD in
Bioengineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(Lausanne, Switzerland) which he defended in June
2008. In July 2009, Mr. Wipff worked for the development
of Excellness Biotech, a company proposing innovative solutions
for cell culture that was incorporated in may 2009.
The soundness of this business was rewarded by numerous
grants and prices including Venture08, PERL, Innogrant,
Venuture Kick,...
Looking for:
I am looking for 1.5 Mio CHF to get my business started +
partners for production (specialized in silicone handling and
manufacturing).

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Simon Wüthrich

After finishing high school I worked for
around 2.5 years as a journalist before
starting my studies at the University of
Zurich. While studying (History, Philosophy
and German Literature) I worked
as a Werkstudent for Siemens in Zug,
as a research assistant (Stundentische
Hilfskraft) at the WZB in Berlin, and as
a Werkstudent at NZZ in Zürich. As of
July 1st 2009 I start as editor of startwerk.ch. if everything
works out fine I will finish my studies at the University of
Zurich in October 2010.
Looking for:
I will start as editor of startwerk.ch by July 1st. So I need connections,
connections and connections. The more I'm in this
network, the easier it will be for me to depict the startup
community on startwerk.

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Barbara Yersin

I am co-founder and CEO of Minsh, the
first social world around Twitter! Minsh
is an underwater world where each fish
represents a Twitter user. With Minsh,
users have the opportunity to interact
with many different people, meet new
contacts, and have fun on the way! I
have recently obtained a PhD in Computer
Graphics at the EPFL VRLAB and
since our first business idea, I've discovered a true passion
for entrepreneurship and everything it involves.
Looking for:
I'm looking for: VCs in the domain of Web2.0 with connections
in the valley :).

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Roland Zeller

Roland Zeller is founder CEO of the
company travelwindow AG, who runs
travelwindow.ch and travel.ch. With the
foundation of this company in 1999 he
made his vision reality.
Looking for:
Looking for interesting projects for angel-investments. Or
partnership-projects.

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Participants 2008

Flavio Agosti

A short bio
A venturelab- and IFJ-team member since august 2006.
Responsible for the entrepreneurship course venture challenge
at the ETH Zurich and venture ideas events.
What do you want to emphasize
as your contribution to the venture
ecosystem?
Motivate students to start their own venture and provie the
according support.
What are you looking for?
Networking, contacts, fun.

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Claude Amiguet

A short bio
I graduated in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where I also did my PhD. In my
more than ten-years-long experience, I was built up solid management
skills in piloting teams working in the fields of computing
and high-tech. During that time, I was also actively
involved in project sales, as well as in managing online response
desks. All along my professional life, I worked mainly within
start-up.

What do you want to emphasize
as your contribution to the venture
ecosystem?
Business model.

What are you looking for?
Friendly Partners.

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Mehdi Jacques Aminian

What do you want to emphasize
as your contribution to the venture
ecosystem?
Passionate about novel Internet-based value chain.

What do you want to emphasize
as your contribution to the venture
ecosystem?
Identifying the required, and sometimes not so obvious,
requirements to build a successful business.

What are you looking for?
Good fun!

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Federico Angiolini

A short bio
Federico Angiolini got his PhD in Electronic Engineering in
Bologna, Italy, working on advanced chip design. In 2007 he
decided to incorporate a start-up to turn his academic research
into concrete products.

What do you want to emphasize
as your contribution to the venture
ecosystem?
Federico Angiolini made the jump from academia to entrepreneurship,
overcoming the communication gap among the
research and industrial worlds.

What are you looking for?
iNoCs is in its early stages, and is looking for funding to
grow and develop.

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Manuel Aschwanden

A short bio
Manuel is co-inventor of Optotuneís core technology. He
holds a MSc in electrical engineering and a PhD in nanotechnology
from ETH Zurich. Besides his excellent engineering skills he
also gained a broad knowledge in economics during his business
education in London and Chicago. He has the talent to
motivate people and to win them for his ideas. Manuel has the
necessary drive to sucessfully lead Optotuneís management
team...

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Dieter Bachman

A short bio
Founder and co-owner of several companies. Member of the
Board (VR) Nexus AG and Fanware AG. Former CEO of economic
development region of Winterthur, Member of Greater
Zurich Area. Co-Founder of several initiatives like Genilem
Zurich-Ostschweiz, Heuberger Jungunternehmerpreis, Jungunternehmerclub
etc. At the moment in sabbatical / brain
storm phase. Qualifications: Master of Business and Administration,
Post Graduate Diplomas. Dissertation (cand.) in entrepreneurship.

What do you want to emphasize
as your contribution to the venture
ecosystem?
Nice people, Contacts, Ideas, ...

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Roman Balzan

A short bio
Since 2001, I?ve worked with young entrepreneurs and got
infected by the startup-fever. As the assistant and one of the
first empoyees of Beat Schillig at the IFJ, I helped implementing
the Swiss federal initiative «venturelab». Now I'm building up my
own start-up "suxedoo.ch", an online-target-marketing plattform
based on giving incentives to users for their detailed profiles.
The keyword is "social winning".

What do you want to emphasize
as your contribution to the venture
ecosystem?
Our start-up found a new way of integrating marketing and
its consumers to one aggregated system. Traffic "through"
advertisement, no more annoying ads and e-mails. Targetmarketing
has never bee so easy!

What are you looking for?
We are looking for 350'000 CHF in Form of 250'000 CHF
private equity and 100'000 CHF convertible loan.

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Derek Barras

A short bio
Derek is graduated Business Administration at the HEG with
broad experience in early-stage start-up and in organization of
several prestigious events. He works as a project manager at
venture kick and at venturelab.

What do you want to emphasize
as your contribution to the venture
ecosystem?
We aim to support the best swiss startups.

What are you looking for?
Networking and exchange experiences.

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Martin Bartholet

A short bio
Emerging applications in renewable energy generation,
medical surgical instruments and micro-machining spindles
demand innovative, ultra-high-speed, compact electrical motor
drives. Celeroton develops and produces such motors and
electronics and sells them to the respective end system manufacturers.
The innovation lies in the interdisciplinary design,
including mechanics, electromagnetics, electronics and software,
which allows for highest rotational speeds ? up to 1 million
revolutions per minute (rpm).

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Early stage startup experience.

What are you looking for?
Fruitful discussions, interesting contacts, 24h of fun.

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Nicolas Berg

A short bio
Nicolas Berg, partner at Redalpine Venture Partners, Country
Manager Xing Switzerland, serial entrepreneur, angel investor,
coach for venturelab. Nicolas has invested in 16 private companies
(ICT, Live Sciences) since 2000, and he has co-founded 8
companies since 1984. In 1998, he founded Borsalino.ch, a
leading Swiss financial portal for private investors that was
acquired by Ringier Media in 2000. For several years Nicolas has
worked as a technology and finance journalist. He graduated as
M.Sc. (BA) at the University of Bern in 1985. Born 1959, he grew
up in Gstaad, Bern and Basel, and is living in Solothurn.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
As Redalpine: One of the rare European early-stage venture
capitalists. As a person: Serial entrepreneur, angel and coach
for venturelab.

What are you looking for?
Open for surprises. Further improving relationships in the
Swiss venture ecosystem.

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Christian Bochet

A short bio
Christian Bochet was born in 1968 in Den Haag (Netherlands).
After attending schools in Paris and Geneva, he studied
organic chemistry at the University of Geneva and Stanford
University. In 2002, he was awarded an SNF-professorship, and
moved to the University of Fribourg, where he became full professor
in 2006. He founded Atlas Photonics later that year.
When not doing chemistry and founding companies, he enjoys
playing violin in the Geneva Symphony Orchestra, reading and
long-distance running.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Showing students and researchers that, yes, they also can do it!

What are you looking for?
Customers and distributors.

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Silvio Bonaccio

A short bio
Silvio is a chemist by training and obtained his PhD at ETH
Zurich in 1995. He then joined the Nestec Productivity Team, an
operation improvement group of Nestlé. He returned to Switzerland
by the end of 2000 and started as a tech transfer
manager at ETH transfer / ETH Zurich. He heads the office since
January 2005. Silvio holds an executive MBA from IMD Lausanne
and is a member of various expert groups and associations
as well as a co-founder of the Swiss technology transfer association
swiTT.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Provide a platform to help and support outstanding people
from ETH Zurich to commercialize cutting-edge technology
from the institutiton.

What are you looking for?
People with long term experience in industry and a high
entrepreneurial spirit.

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Pierre Bordry

A short bio
Having spent 15 years both as Fund Manager and active
COO in expanding SMEs, Pierre is passionate by entrepreneurship
and developed a close sense of shared interest with entrepreneurs.
Creative, he designed financial tools in order to optimize
internal and external growth in ?traditional? industries
and introduced the first mezzanine tools on the French and
Swiss markets. Being aware of the increasing sophistication
required by fund management industry, he passed the Quantitative
Fund Management degree at Université de Genève in
2003.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
How to raise funds with private investors (private equity)

What are you looking for?
Exchange of experiences and new opportunities for my 300
investors.

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Mark Blum

A short bio
Mark holds a MSc in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich.
During his studies he strengthened his international network
with stays in Gothenburg, Paris and at MIT. After graduating he
gained two years of experience in strategy consulting with Bain
& Company. During 8 intensive projects in 5 countries he
acquired practical business skills, complementing his technical
background. Mark founded Optotune with 3 friends in January
2008 and is responsible for business development.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
I can share the experience I gained during my 2 years of consulting
at Bain. This is mainly skills in market analysis, business
definition, financial modelling, communication (structure, storyline,
answer first). Also, I?m a Pro in Excel and PowerPoint.

What are you looking for?
Series A Venture Capital of CHF 2-6M in Spring 2009, connections
to the telecom industry (camera module and mobile phone
manufacturers), manu-facturing partners and talented engineers.

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André Brühlmann

A short bio
I am a business economist and director of COMITAS AG. I
have been with the firm for 8 years now.
My passion is my family with two children, I love to swim and
to play tennis.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
I am a co-founder of 3 companies. With COMITAS AG we
support startups with our technology.

What are you looking for?
Good networking, fun, meet nice and interesting people.

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Pierre Bureau

A short bio
Founder Arimaz SA, expert in mobile robotic technologies
and markets. Solid engineering background with current activities
focused on business development and marketing strategy.
Strong links with European robotic research network and EU
research framework program. Recent participation to the VentureLab
Swiss entrepreneurship program and part of the VentureLeaders
2007 Team. Previously employed as CTO for K-Team
SA. Founder of Arimaz SA, developing technologies for interactive
toys and entertainment robots.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
There are not that many active entrepreneur in the Lausanne
area, I would be quite keen on promoting local social networking
events.

What are you looking for?
Arimaz SA has recently being founded, and we are looking for
early stage investment to finance our first product launch. On a
much more practical level, I am looking for someone with a technical
profile who could join us as a co-founder and head of R&D!!

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Danièle Castle

A short bio
Danièle runs her own health communications agency (it's all
about getting the right message to the right people) and loves
the living arts and literature.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Helping put start-ups on the map in the media, pharma/biotech/
medtech and the investor community.

What are you looking for?
Serenity, through lots of business!

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Heinrich Christen

A short bio
As Partner in charge of Entrepreneur Of The Year, I run the
swiss program in its eleventh year. I work a lot with entrepreneurs
as clients, and I love it a lot. My special field of interest is
the Medical Device Industry.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Bring in experience of dealing with fast growing companies.

What are you looking for?
Interesting conversations!

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Didier Coquoz

A short bio
Dr. Coquoz is by education a clinical pharmacologist and
pharmacist with 18 years of international experience in the
pharmaceutical industry. He is president and CEO since 1995 of
DRDC Pharma S.A., a registered Swiss drug, business and companies
development consultancy firm. Until recently, Dr. Coquoz
was CEO of Xigen S.A., a biotech spin-off from the University
Hospital of Lausanne that he structured from scratch. He capitalized
Xigen in one year with 17 mios ? (largest Series A round)
and transformed in 24 months an academic spin-off with a lead
compound into a promising Biotech of 17 FTEs. The first compound
is in clinics and 5 new leads are under development for
the treatment of cancer and viral infections. Prior to that, Dr.
Coquoz gained experience on both sides of the Atlantic mainly
as Vice-President and founding employee of H3 Pharma in Montreal,
Canada, from 2000 to 2004; as Vice-President and founding
employee of Triskel integrated Services in Geneva from 1995
to 2000. In his early industrial life, he also gained experience in
drug development and marketing at Servier.

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Stéphane Croisier

A short bio
- HEC and computer Science degrees - I started my carreer
in Audit/Business Consulting at Arthur Andersen Geneva - I
created in 98 a first VC funded B2B company (Xo3) active in the
Portal + a marketplace of reusable IT components which went
bankrupt in 2001 during the crash of the new economy. - I recreated
in 2002 a second company (Jahia) which I am still
managing today (30 employees - ~5 mio CHF revenues - subsidaires
in France; Austria and USA) which is active in the "Open
Source Enterprise Content Management" market niche.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Tenacity; pugnacity; market reality; always keeping a vision
is good but attention to details is key; Know as much as you can
about all management topics (legal, HR; IT; leadership; Finance;...)
and not specialize yourself only on your key skill.

What are you looking for?
Meet old friends; Make new contacts; Have fun.

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Giovanna Davatz

A short bio
Born in Graubuenden, Giovanna Davatz studied physics at
ETH Zurich and in Toulouse, France. After her studies she decided
to earn her PhD at the European Center for Nuclear
Research (CERN) in Geneva, exploring the discovery potential
of the new accelerator (LHC). With the knowledge obtained
during her PhD, she founded Arktis Radiation Detectors Ltd
together with two partners. The company, whose focus ist the
development of radiation detection technology for security
applications, has been awarded several distinguished prizes,
including McKinsey&Co?s ?best business plan?.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
My contribution will be to provide a fresh spirit to the event.

What are you looking for?
I am looking forward to the venture summit with a direct
focus other than day-to-day business. To enlarge my personal
and professional network, and perhaps even meet people with
experience that is currently very relevant in our field: Defense
contracting.

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Rinaldo Dieziger

A short bio
Pimp Your Text

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Funky Ideas

What are you looking for?
Fun.

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Bettina Ernst

A short bio
Bettina Ernst is co-founder and CEO of the company PRECLIN
Biosystems AG. She has a total of 10 years of experience working
in basic immunology and spent many years working
in the U.S. Recently, Bettina shifted her focus to laboratory
management and refined her business expertise by undertaking
an MBA. In addition, Bettina was one of Switzerland?s leading
gymnasts, participating in the 1984 Olympic games. She also
won the Amateur division of the Hawaiian Ironman in 1996 and
again in 1998.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
We are a young and ambitious Biotech start-up company
that aims for success.

What are you looking for?
To get to know key decision makers of the pharmaceutical
industry - to meet with Business Angels, who have an interest
investing into our company and who are willing to bring extra
value - to get to know other enterpreneurs.

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Patrizia Fischer

A short bio
I've received my BSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH in
2006 and I am now finishing my thesis to obtain the MSc Biomedical
Engineering. I've been initiative my whole life and love
challenges of all kinds such as organizing events, high school
exchange in Australia, internship at EMPA, internship in
Washington DC, organizing the Challenge07, funding of a Biomed
student association, internship with Siemens Medical in
Lausanne. The desicion to turn my successful student projects
(patent application) into a feasible business model and make it
happen was the best ever - I just love what I do.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Although Pearltec is affiliated with ETH, I am not the typical PhD
turning his thesis into a company: I am younger and I am female.

What are you looking for?
Personally: to meet people and have interesting discussions.
In terms of business, I am looking for radiologists for collaborations,
experts for discussions and investors for a seed financing
round in Q1 2009.

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Gilles Florey

A short bio
After my diploma in Business and Administration at HES SO
in Sierre, I cofounded KeyLemon SA. I took the lead of the company
as the Managing Director and I am in charge of strategy
development, commercial and communication aspect, seeking
financing and daily management of the company.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Sharing experience.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
The final goal is to contribute a successful Start Up company
that is creating jobs and will be another positive example of Swiss
innovation. To this summit, I want to contribute my experiences
as young entrepreneur up to this stage, lots of fun, drive an.

What are you looking for?
We are looking for a seed financing round of 1.5 MCHF in order
to get our first drug candidate (against multi-drug resistant
Tuberculosis) into clinical phase I and to expand our portfolio of
potential drug candidates. On top of this, we are looking for.

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Kai Glatt

A short bio
After his studies, Kai Glatt worked for a startup in the sports
industry and then for an international technology concern.
Since 2004, Kai works for the IFJ and especially for venturelab.
He is responsible for the coordination of venturelab in the German
part of Switzerland. Further, he is entrepreneurship lecturer
at the FHS, works as a trainer for venturelab and supports
startups in the IFJ Businessplan-Workshops.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Support startups with know-how, training and network.

What are you looking for?
Networking with interesting people and a lot of fun.

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Dominik Grolimund

A short bio
Dominik Grolimund is 27 years old and has studied computer
science at ETH Zurich. In 1998, he founded his software
company Caleido, and developed a professional contact
management software, of which over 35'000 licenses have
been sold so far. In 2004, he started project Wuala at ETH
Zurich together with Luzius Meisser and in 2007, they founded
their company to further develop Wuala and launch it publicly.
Wuala (http://wua.la) is a free online storage that is based on a
revolutionary technology.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
With Wuala, we hope to reach millions of happy users and
thus change the landscape of online storage. If so, this will
have a big impact to the (Swiss) venture ecosystem.

What are you looking for?
If you have a great use case for Wuala (as a customer or as
a partner), please contact me :) If you have money and you
think you'd be a great fit for Wuala, please get in touch with
me as well (we're completely self-financed so far).

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Maël Guillemot

A short bio
I have a computer science background, studied in a couple of
european universities in France, UK and Spain. My main area of
expertise is the multimedia information management. Since
November 2007, I am the CEO and co-founder of Klewel
(www.klewel.com).

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Through Klewel, I provide solutions to capture, automatically
index and put online any seminars and conferences. After a
1-day conference, all the talks are available on a video platform,
synchronised with slides. Users can then search online for specific
information within each presentation.

What are you looking for?
I am looking for partners for selling Klewel's services and
products as well as financing for our next marketing and development
projects.

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Sadik Hafizovic

A short bio
First company in Freiburg, D., offering software and network
services 1998-2001. Studied Microsystem Technology in Germany,
Master thesis in Japan 2002, PhD in physics at ETH 2007,
co-founded Zurich Instruments AG 2008. Currently Sadik Hafizovic
is the CEO of Zurich Instruments AG.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Expertise on how to develop and manufacture high-bandwidth
(50 MHz) analog circuits and high-performance FPGAs
with the resources of a startup company.

What are you looking for?
Partners for co-developments, MRI people, Angel Investors.

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René Hausammann

A short bio
Studies in Physics at ETH Zurich. Worked 10 years in research
in Geneva, US, Hamburg and 12 years in industry, of which 8
years in supercomputing as CEO of the Swiss Branch of the
Japanese NEC Corporation in Lugano. Since 2000 at the interface
between university and business: Set up and managed the
TECHNOPARK® Winterthur and the Tech Transfer Office of the
ZHAW. In May 2008 start of the construction of the extension
building to the Technopark, ready to receive new start-ups as
of Jan 2010.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
TECHNOPARK Winterthur

What are you looking for?
Motivated partners with ideas on how to promote cooperation
university - business and innovative start-ups. Candidate
start-ups for the TECHNOPARK Winterthur.

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Peter Hogenkamp

A short bio
German, living in Switzerland since 1990. Graduated in Information
Management from University of St. Gallen in 1996. Cofounded
Zurich-based Zeix AG, leading Swiss Usability Agency,
in 2000. Founded commercial blog publisher Blogwerk AG in
2006.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
2nd round funding/strategic investor.

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Pierre Ihmle

A short bio
Building on my entrepreneurial experience and broad international
background both in science and business, I lead at
EPFL the development of partnerships with industry. In 2005, I
founded a technology start-up, Cinetis SA, which imagines,
develops and provides services in the domain of film digitization.
I am regularly involved in executive and MBA programs at
IMD, and teach a strategy class with Venturelab. I hold a degree
in natural sciences from the ETHZ and a Ph.D. in geophysics
from M.I.T., Cambridge, USA. I am a Board member of two startups
and two non-profit organizations.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Creating a company and jobs (the first start-up of IdeArk's
incubator in Martigny), teaching entrepreneurship, ensuring
that big corporations will come with R&D labs and not only HQ
to the W-CH area

What are you looking for?
Nothing special, just be there with interesting and fun
people.

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Mario Jenni

A short bio
Mr. Jenni studied molecular genetics at the University of Zurich
and obtained his MSc at the Institute of Zoology of the same university
in 1991. He continued as a research assistant and in 1992
he started working as District Manager for Life Technologies AG,
Basel (Invitrogen). In 1994 he became Product Manager at
Hoechst-Pharma AG, Zurich (Sanofi-Aventis). In 1998 Mr. Jenni
co-founded and co-led the biotech spin-off The Genetics Company
with three top-class scientists. In 2002 he became a successful
independent consultant for the life science community, and additionally
in 2007 Managing Director of a newly founded business
incubator, located at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science
and Technology (Empa) in Zurich-Dubendorf.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Providing know-how, connections and infrastrastructure for
young entrepreneurs.

What are you looking for?
Expanding my network and learn more about innovative
projects.

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Corinne John

A short bio
Corinne John, co-founder and CSO of Redbiotec AG, was
winner of venture leaders 2007. Together with the Redbiotec
AG team she won three additional entrepreneurship and technology
prizes, including the renowned de Vigier price 2007.
Corinne obtained her PhD from the ETHZ and gained research
experience at Harvard Medical School. Redbiotec AG, founded
in 2006, is an ETH spin-off company specialized in the production
of protein complexes for drug development.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Experience as biotech entrepreneur.

What are you looking for?
Investors and experienced business partners.

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Thomas Jörg

A short bio
After working as Media-Entrepreneur in Zurich, Thomas did
produce a movie in India. He was selected to study at the German
Film and TV Academy Berlin. His last production CHRIGU
premiered at the 57. Berlinale, was shown in Shanghai, Cannes
or Havanna and won the Zurich Film Award in 2007.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Yes, you can really make money in the movie industry...

A short bio
At the IFJ I am responsible for several operative tasks concerning
the initiative «venture kick» and the initiative «venturelab
». This summer I have completed my degree at the University
of St. Gallen and I have always enjoyed to work with a great
team on the effective support of promising startup projects at
the IFJ.

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William Lüthi

A short bio
Apprenticeship and assistant/advisor in wealth management with UBS, followed by a Bachelor in marketing and international management at the University of Applied Sciences, St.Gallen. In the last four years with veturelab I have been responsible for screening and selecting cases, heading strategy workshops and managing many internal and external projects. Currently I am finishing my master's degree in innovation management at the University of St.Gallen.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Capital, trainings, sparring.

What are you looking for?
Meeting friends, interesting people and having fun!

A short bio
Studied Engineering Physics at the University of Toronto and
finishing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at EPFL under Prof.
Philippe Renaud. Interned at different places during school
including Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, one year at Zyvex Corp (Dallas, TX), the
first company to commercialize molecular nanotechnology,
Bosch Research in Palo Alto, CA and the Stanford Nanofabrication
Facility. Founded Aleva Neurotherapeutics in 2008 to commercialize
neurostimulation technology for the treatment of
neurological disorders.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Objective feedback on others' ideas and help with networking
in the US.

What are you looking for?
Networking and memories with other entrepreneurs.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Skills in the optimized combination of Business Strategy,
Corporate Identity, Marketing and Communication. How to
create high-level impact at low-level cost.

What are you looking for?
Interesting conversations; Investors who are aware of the
importance of Corporate Identity Management and Communication
and who might be potential partners; interesting Startups
to invest in.

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Jordi Montserrat

A short bio
Jordi is active since 12 years in the high-tech entrepreneurship
field. In several position ranging from start-up executive
to managing national initiatives such as Create Switzerland,
venturelab, and venture kick in Western Switzerland and at the
national level, Jordi has acquired a unique network and understanding
of the high-tech entrepreneurship scene in Switzerland.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Support for starting entrepreneurs and networking.

What are you looking for?
New ways to make Switzerland an entrepreneurial leader.

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Geneviève Morand

A short bio
Law degree, MPA, Marketing, Geneviève Morand founded
Rezonance just 10 years ago. Rezonance is a Swiss network of
25'000 entrepreneurs based in Romandie.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Rezonance organizes 35 conferences a year in all Romandie
and Bern and offers online services. The open university of
entrepreneurs.

What are you looking for?
Happy to meet crazy entrepreneurs who think big!

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Jochen Mundinger

A short bio
Jochen Mundinger is CEO and Chairman of routeRANK Ltd,
which he started in 2006. He holds first class MA, MPhil and
PhD degrees in mathematics and computer science from Cambridge
University, UK, and previously worked as a senior
researcher at EPFL.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Started a company.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Finance, network.

What are you looking for?
Venture ideas, talents, enterpreneurs.

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Claus Niedermann

A short bio
Claus Niedermann is a Journalist for over 30 years. He is the
founder of the Journalistenbüro Niedermann GmbH in Lucerne
(1986). For many years he was in charge of the page "Innovation"
in the Swiss business magazine CASH where he got awarded
in 1996 with the "Idee-Suisse Creativity Award". His team
is responsible for all specials of the CASH group concerning
Innovation and KMU. Since the beginning 10 years ago he puts
a personal emphasize as expert and member of the jury into the
Swiss Economic Award and many other Swiss Awards.

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Daniel Niklaus

A short bio
14 years pioneering work for Your Internet Success. For 14
years we develop Internet strategies, create web projects, produce
award winning online campaigns. We speak, write and
teach. We are at the heart beat at the internet and most times
we are a step ahead of our competitors.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Now we use our 14 Years Experience to offer to all the new
start-up- and small business companies, a great way doing
their business better with the http://business-cockpit.ch.

What are you looking for?
People who can open doors or seeing possibilities we don?t
see or have a deep understanding of our business and can help
to improve our business.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
My experience - in growing up companies - from different
perspectives (Investor, Board Member, Coach, Business Angel).

What are you looking for?
Challenging Entrepreneurs.

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Alexandre Peyraud

A short bio
Despite gaining a certificate in the banking sector, a HES
diploma in Business Management and a Bachelor Degree in
Science of Management, I still define myself as a technology
enthusiast. After working in IT for different companies, I launched
several of my own businesses. The two largest and most
successful were Deckpoint (ISP) and Magelo (internet services
for virtual games) both successfully sold. Today I am business
developer and coach at Genilem. In parallel, I am working on a
new project in mobile telephony.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
To have always deeply believed in the technological capacity
of Swiss people and to have always promoted it by whatever
means I have had at my disposal, for example, with a private
business incubator within Deckpoint.

What are you looking for?
To take up new and exciting challenges in the world of Internet
or mobile technologies.

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Diego Probst

A short bio
A "venturelab"-team member since september 2007.
Responsible for the entrepreneurship courses "venture challenge"
at Universities Basel, Bern and Winterthur and the
organisation of the events "venture ideas", which take place
several times a year.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Motivate students to start their own venture and provide
the according support.

What are you looking for?
Interesting contacts, experiences and fun.

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Jim Pulcrano

A short bio
I'm an engineer by training, with an MBA from IMD. Early
career was in the petroleum industry, but since then I've been
involved with startups and IMD, in parallel. I was born in the US,
but have lived in CH for the past 24 years. I'm married with 3
children, and I live near Lausanne.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Experience: I run IMD's annual startup competition, and over
the past 10 years have analyzed, coached and supported hundreds
of startups. I have co-founded and sold 2 startups. I joined
another and helped it get its first financing.

What are you looking for?
Ideas, contacts, inspiration - for me, for IMD and for the
startups I am in contact with.

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Jost Renggli

A short bio
COO and Partner of Venture Valuation AG. Master in business
economics from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Comprehensive experience in valuing companies based on
many valuation projects in diverse industries. Conception and
development of the Biotechgate Company Database www.biotechgate.
com. Project management for the development of
several internet portals. Previously lecturer at several business
and management schools.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Comprehensive experience in the valuation of technology
driven high-growth companies. Assessment of business ideas
and business plans. Biotechgate - a Biotech database with
more than 10'000 profiles of organizations.

What are you looking for?
Entrepreneurs (or people who want to become an entrepreneur).
Investors. Interesting people who are active in the venture
area.

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Alain Ries

A short bio
Alain Ries has teamed with IRIS Capital early 2002. As a Venture
Partner, Alain brings his entrepreneurial experience to the
evaluation and operational follow-up of portfolio companies in
the IT and Communications sectors across Europe. Prior to joining
IRIS Capital, Alain was Founder & President of InfoVista SA,
a French company that sells SLA and performance measurement
software for Telecom operators. He brought the company
public on both Nasdaq and Nouveau Marché in July 2000. He
previously co-founded Arche Communications in 1991, now the
largest French networking VAR that was acquired by Siemens in
1995 and recently by Telindus.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Passion for entrepreneurs and new technologies. Experience
in successes & failures causes in startups. Coaching of entrepreneurs,
board leadership.

What are you looking for?
Networking. Projects to fund for IRIS Capital. Funding for a
company I recently funded.

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Ralph Rimet

A short bio
Trilingual french/german/english he worked in many functions
for Securitas AG before during and after his academic cursus
at the «University of Applied Science in management» of
Lausanne. In the beginning of 2006, he worked as coordinator
for a restructuration task group. As a matter of fact, he knows
about security. To complete his study at the university of
applied science in Management from Lausanne, he also has followed
the national training program, ?ventureLab, venture training?
as well as a 10 day training at Babson University, Boston,
worldwide known for its business school and is entrepreneurial
training. Since 2005 he is the CEO from SECU4 a start-up
company which raised more than half a million francs to develop
and commercialize the BlueWatchDog. A new anti-theft
and anti-loss system for valuables.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Not much money but great ideas!

What are you looking for?
Business opportunities - investors - networking - have fun.

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Alain Rollier

A short bio
Born in Switzerland, BSc in Mechanical Engineering, International
Sales with Sulzer Burckhardt and Sulzer Turbo in Middle
East and North America, Marketing Manager for Mikron Agno,
VP Marketing Mikron Technology Group, Biel, EVP Sales and
Marketing Mikron Plastics Technology. Founder of Inventum
Management AG - focusing on value creation and value
management. Founder of AXSionics AG.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
being a resource to my venture colleagues.

What are you looking for?
Meet interesting venture people, exchange experiences, get
new inspirations, good wine and food :-)

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Thomas Rüegg

A short bio
In 2002, after my studies at the University of St. Gallen I
have been working with PricewaterhouseCoopers in St. Gallen.
After that I moved to Buhler AG and into the Controlling
Department with responsibility for the financial Consolidation
of the group. I joined IFJ in November 2007 where I am working
as a Program Manager and trainer.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Training and education for the best startups in Switzerland
(working as a trainer and as Program Manager).

What are you looking for?
Interesting contacts, broad network and fun.

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Beat Schillig

A short bio
Beat started his entrepeneurial career 10 years ago. He grew
his company IFJ from a 10% parttime job to a 25 people operation,
managing national programs like venturelab and venture
kick. As a business angel he was helping to grow a good
dozen of startups. Beat is still fascinated every day by exciting
business ideas of the brilliant startup entrepreneurs in Switzerland.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Launching support initiatives for startups like venture kick or
venture summit ;-) together with my strong team.

What are you looking for?
Even more launchable ideas to foster entrepreneurship in
Switzerland.

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Mario Schwendener

A short bio
Mario Schwendener holds a FH degree in business informatics.
He works for IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen and is
responsible for its IT and Internet projects.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Offering a complete online solution for daily business needs.

What are you looking for?
Startups that need an online tool for their daily business.
Homepage, adresse, project and calculation management out of
one hand.

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Alexandre Serov

A short bio
Alexandre Serov is a leader of the FluxExplorer start-up project
aimed at marketing of a new medical imaging diagnostic
technology. Alexandre obtained his PhD in University of Twente,
the Netherlands, in 2002 working in the Biomedical Optics
group. Then he moved to Switzerland for working in the Biomedical
Optics Laboratory in EPFL. In this lab Alexandre developed
a new medical technology and initiated start-up project,
FluxExplorer, for transferring the technology towards the market.
In 2005 Alexandre joint Venture Lab ecosystem for developing
his entrepreneurship.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
FluxExplorer Team has extended networking of Swiss physicians
working in various medical domains. We are open for
partnership in the field of medical devices business.

What are you looking for?
FluxEXPLORER Team is looking for partners experienced in
development and marketing diagnostic medical devices. Also we
are definitely looking investors to start our business at full scale.

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Samuel Sonderegger

A short bio
I obtained my Master degree in Physics from EPF Lausanne
after studies in Lausanne, Lyon and St. Petersburg. During my
PhD at EPFL (up to 2007) I codeveloped the ultrafast Scanning
electron microscopy technique now being commercialized by
Attolight. Currently I'm CEO of Attolight, company I founded
with Jean Berney in march 2008.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Creation of a high-potential Swiss Nanotechnology Startup
company.

What are you looking for?
Parnters and advisory board members.

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Peter Stöckling

A short bio
Probably the senior member of the summit, I am not a founder
but a journalist and since 1996 (magazine BOOM) involved
in the scene, actually as responsible für media and communication
für venturelab, venture kick and IFJ.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Make it as public as possible.

What are you looking for?
A lot of unknown experiences!

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Pierre Strübin

A short bio
Pierre Strübin is Director of FONGIT, a Geneva based high
tech incubator hosting more than 10 companies and vice-chairman
of Fongit Seed Invest SA, one of the very few early seed
fund. Prior to joining FONGIT, Pierre worked for many years at
ABB, IEC and LEM, as a general manager for the component
division. Since 1986, Pierre set up different start-ups and is
member of many boards. Pierre is an Electrical Engineer and
holds an MA in Finance and a MBA in Management. His expertises
are in the field of Finance, Project Management and General
Management.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Practical experience of developing start-ups.

What are you looking for?
Just help youngers entrepreneurs... and also learn something
from them.

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Dominik Tarolli

A short bio
Dominik (COO & Founder Procedural Inc.)trained and consulted
over 300 high-tech startups mainly in Europe and the
US since 1996. He also held some minor stake in different
startups, is the founder of SwissStartups.com and the Blog-
Camp Switzerland. Dominik has over seven years of experience
in online and offline marketing, working for global clients. He
was responsible for market different internet communities in
Switzerland and the German part of the Swiss initiative «venturelab
».

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Passion!

What are you looking for?
Sun, fun and AdVenture!

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Marc Thurner

A short bio
After having worked in a Swiss leading research company
(CSEM), I had the opportunity to work in the area of the assembly
technology (Mikron Assembly technologies) and lately for
the medical industries (Cochlear acoustics). I founded the company
Delta Robotics GmbH in 2007 that acts in the tissue engineering
field. Our core development is the develoment of a bioinductive
bone graft.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Share my experience with young entreprenuers active in the
Medtech field.

What are you looking for?
Networking with young entrepreneurs and potential investors.

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Stefan Tuchschmid

A short bio
Always fascinated by both business and technology, Stefan
Tuchschmid founded his first company www.netpictures.ch to
finance his studies of Information Technology and Electrical
Engineering at the ETH Zurich (2001-2005). In 2005, Stefan
started his PhD entitled "High Fidelity Surgical Simulator for
Hysteroscopy", a project involving 16 researchers from various
universities. After the presentation on a medical congress
March 2007, it was high time to bring the simulator to the surgeons
- VirtaMed was born.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Help even younger startups with tips how we did the first
steps. Become a fast growing startup and success story.

What are you looking for?
Contacts to MedTech companies. VP Marketing & Sales. Distribution
help in the US.

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Remo Uherek

A short bio
I am 24 years old and I am Co-Founder & CEO of Trigami AG,
an Advertising-Network specializing in Social Media Marketing,
in particular Blogs. I studied business & economics at Uni Basel
and Trigami is my second Internet company. I recharge my batteries
practicing Martial Arts (Boxing, Karate) and enjoying
DVDs (Lost, Prison Break).

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
I run one of the most well-known blogs about Entrepreneurship
in Switzerland (www.remo.fm). I enjoy supporting cool
(Internet)-Startups with additional media coverage. I also enjoy
sharing my Online-Marketing expertise and insights.

What are you looking for?
I'm looking for fun & exchange of ideas and best practices
with other Internet-Startups.

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Christian Vögeli

A short bio
Christian Vögeli received his M.Sc. from ETH Zürich in 2005
for a thesis about Dybuster, for which he was also rewarded the
ETH Medal. He worked as a research assistant at ETH and led
the user study proving the efficiency of the Dybuster approach
for dyslexia therapy. In February 2007 he co-founded Dybuster
AG and has been its CEO since, releasing the first product in
Mai 2007 and selling 1?200 copies in one year. He was a finalist
in TV show ?Start-up? by SF and a Venture Leader 2008.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Mentoring of younger start-ups shortly before and after
incorportaion; investment opportunity.

What are you looking for?
Partners for business development in Germany and starting
2009 English speaking areas; financing to support this expansion
(I will however only start looking for financing again at the
beginning of 2009).

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Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier

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Since 2003 CTI Start-up Coach (Financing and Pitching)
Since 2004 Lecturer at Venturelab (Financing). Since 2003
Managing Director of CTI Invest.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Investor Network (Europe).

What are you looking for?
Interesting Swiss High Tech companies looking for investors
and potential investor members for CTI Invest.

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David Weill

A short bio
David Weill is an Engineer in Microtechnology specialised in
subcontracting. He has 7 years of know-how in the medical
industrial field with 2 industrial and commercial ?success-stories?.
Davids major skill is to be able to bring an idea to a reliable
serially produced device in the medical field. He went through
the overall industrial path from Project Leader, through product
manager, R&D Director and ended as CEO. David also worked in
the Swiss luxury watch industry. In 2004 he decided to build his
own research company and developed the world leading award
winning product that is now known under the name of PRECIQUANT.
On his free time, when he had some, David loved hiking,
skiing, diving, riding his motorbike and setting his home cinema
system as he is also a THX certified installer!

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
My network to both get help and help people ...

What are you looking for?
All that can help me to improve my network .. as too many
engineers .. i must try harder ..

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Jean-Marc Wismer

A short bio
Jean-Marc Wismer has 18y experience in MEMS, Medical
devices and IT companies with various senior managerial positions
in int'l hi-tech management and financing. Companies
include Medtronic, Lysis (COO), Neocast (CEO). Jean-Marc is
currently CEO of Sensimed AG. His education includes a MS in
Electrical engineering from EPFL (1989) and an MBA from IMD
(1996).

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
Sharing experience, discussions, emotions and positive energy
with motivated entrepreneurs.

What are you looking for?
Exchange, fun, openness... and of course connections for
mutual personal and business interest.

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Rolando Zahner

A short bio
Consultant for Marketing and Communication, Instructor
Malik Management Centrum, Hochschule Liechtenstein, University
of applied scienes St.Gallen, Venturelab Studies at the
University of St.Gallen, HSG.

What do you want to emphasize as your contribution to the venture ecosystem?
To share my experiences in business with ambicious people.

What are you looking for?
Looking for good business contacts, interesting people, emotional
moments.

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Benoît Dubuis

A short bio
I have 15 years of international experience in the life sciences,
both in industry and in academic science management.
I occupied different management positions in pharmaceutical
companies, including Ciba-Geigy/Novartis and Lonza. In 2000 I
joined the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) to
establish the School of Life Sciences and served as its first
Dean. In 2004 I co-founded Eclosion, the first Swiss life sciences
seed-fund and incubator, I also founded Excellgene SA
and I am the President of the BioAlps association.

What do you want to emphasize
as your contribution to the venture
ecosystem?
I co-founded Eclosion SA the first life-sciences seed fund in
Switzerland which aims at converting the excellence of
research into economic value and jobs

What are you looking for?
The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands,
but in seeing with new eyes. I am looking forward to discuss
my experience with other experienced people.